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Some major economic news was announced on Monday in the form a $500,000 grant issued to the Southern Tier Startup Alliance, a collaboration between Binghamton University, Cornell University, Corning I...read more

A bi-partisan Medicare reform bill, passed by the House last week, is good news for rural hospitals in the Southern Tier and the Finger Lakes and for their senior patients who depend on Medicare.&nbsp...read more

A Tompkins County Jail inmate has been charged for physically attacking three corrections officers in the jail. According to Sheriff’s, a 24 year old resident of Bronx, NY, Roshane Henry, was ch...read more

State Senator Tom O'Mara, newly-appointed to the Senate Task Force on Workforce Development, says the emphasis needs to shift from job-creating tax cuts to retraining workers to qualify for hard-to-fi...read more

An 18 year old Schuyler County teen has been arrested by Ithaca Police for allegedly possessing property that was recently stolen from the Beverly J. Martin Elementary School in Ithaca. Dylan Go...read more

A popular packaged food product is being recalled because it might contain small pieces of metal and the Food Bank of the Southern Tier has issued an urgent advisory to those who received the product ...read more

A deer carcass found on the Trumansburg Central School grounds Wednesday had a bullet in it and had what school officials deemed as an alarming note attached to it. The deer was found in the stu...read more

An arrest has been made in the Wednesday afternoon robbery of State Smoke Shop in Ithaca. Alan Richards, of Trumansburg, is accused of robbing the downtown store.
The 40 year old was charged ...read more

A lone bandit robbed the State Smoke Shop in downtown Ithaca at 3:45 PM Wednesday afternoon; threatening the store's clerk and making off with an undisclosed amount of money.
Ithaca Police say the wo...read more

Some classes at Ithaca College were cancelled this morning because of a power outage on campus. The affected buildings are Williams Hall, Muller Chapel, the entire Campus Center, Gannett Center, and t...read more

A man from Jamaica has been arrested by Cornell University Police for possessing 250 bags of heroin. A Cornell police officer stopped a car in a Stewart Avenue parking lot Monday afternoon and noticed...read more

More snow and cold tempatures for the Finger Lakes Region.
Two-to-three inches of new snow fell on the region overnight. Tempatures are expected to remain in the single numbers and with the wind chil...read more

Cayuga Mall on North Triphammer Road in Tompkins County was closed Wednesday after a partial roof collapse. The Ithaca Journal reports the collapse occurred in a vacant store near Party City Wed...read more

The Ithaca-Tompkins County Convention and Visitors Bureau has officially given up. It's recognizing this winter is lousy in the Finger Lakes and encouraging people who visit its website to go to the F...read more

A tractor trailer hauling a load of cars that lost control and crashed into Simeon's Restaurant in downtown Ithaca, last June, killing a pregnant bartender and injuring five others has prompted Senato...read more

A Korean Air executive that graduated from Cornell University has been sentenced to a year in prison for violating aviation law after throwing a tantrum over nuts. ABC's Joohee Cho reports from Seoul,...read more

An Ithaca man accused of stealing more than five hundred dollars in men's clothing from a Target store in Lansing is now in custody. 33 year old Jason Brown, Senior, turned himself into State Police W...read more

A former Cornell University wrestler was found guilty Thursday of sexual abuse and burglary in connection with an incident that occurred in March of 2013. According to law enforcement, Peter Mes...read more

A 23 year old Ithaca woman has died from injuries she suffered in a Wednesday morning crash on Route 79 in the town of Enfield.
Ashley Hair was a passenger in the pickup truck 49 year old Paul ...read more

A senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences' School of Applied Economics and Development at Cornell University died over the weekend after being struck by a car. Oluchukwu Onuora was walk...read more

An accident involving a Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit bus on the Cornell University campus Monday morning resulted in the death of a staff member in the College of Human Ecology.
Angela ...read more

HWS Presidential Fellow and Ithaca Mayor Svante L. Myrick will address Geneva High School on Friday, Jan. 30 at 9:15 a.m. in the GHS auditorium, as part of the LEAP (Lead Excel Achieve Progress) Initi...read more

A Tompkins County man was sentenced to 120 days in jail for shooting his dog twice in the head last fall. Jeffrey Wood shot the German Sheppard dog and left her in his yard overnight last September. S...read more

A two month investigation into the alleged theft of a large sum of money that had been stolen from Classen Home Health Associates in Ithaca has resulted in the arrest of a 33 year old Ithaca woman.&nb...read more

State Police in Ithaca are asking for the public's help for information in a fatal hit-and-run accident that occurred in May of 1990.
22 year old Phillip Zerrillo, of Cortland, was struck and k...read more

In terms of food distribution, 2014 was a banner year for the Food Bank of the Southern Tier. Jonathan Fuller is the Food Bank's Community and Public Relations Manager. He tells us more. [audio:FoodBa...read more

The Trumansburg man accused of harming a 2 year old girl in 2013 has pleaded guilty to attempted assault charges. Christopher Brown returned the girl to her mother in November of 2013 with bruis...read more

Benjamin Rifkin has been named as the new provost and vice president for Educational Affairs at Ithaca College. Rifkin comes to Ithaca from The College of New Jersey, where he has served as dean of th...read more

Ten people, nine from Tompkins County and one from Cayuga County, were arrested Friday for blocking the gates of Crestwood Midstream in the town of Reading. 180 arrests have been made at Crestwood's p...read more

Authorities say a man who barricaded himself inside his home during a three-day standoff with police died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
The Tompkins County Sheriff's Office said that 36-year-o...read more

She is getting settled in her new office. Dr. Susan Brown starts the new year as the new Director of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva and associate dean for Cornell University'...read more

The 32 year old Cayuga Heights man accused of murdering his girlfriend Thanksgiving night pleaded not guilty in Tompkins County Court Friday. Benjamin Cayea is accused of choking to death 23 year old ...read more

Ithaca police bust a would-be burglar. Cops say Brett Heroy was spotted in the shrubbery outside a building last evening on West Seneca Street. Not long after someone called 911 to report Heroy, cop...read more

The National Weather Service has issued a High Wind Warning and Flood Watch from 2 p.m. Monday until 5 p.m. Tuesday for all of Central New York and Pennsylvania.The land falling of Hurricane Sandy wil...read more

The Ithaca City Police officer shot in the line of duty last Thursday night will be released from the hospital today. Officer Anthony Augustine was shot while trying to arrest a car thief in the West ...read more

With Hurricane Sandy set to impact the Finger Lakes and Southern Tier over the next 24 to 48 hours, Congressman Tom Reed wants residents to make safety their top priority.....
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Enough is enough. Cornell University in collaboration with the DEC is taking the bull by it's horns as they announced Friday it's plans to conduct an 2.1 million dollar intensive study of Cayuga Lake ...read more

The first of three debates between Congressman Tom Reed and challenger Nate Shinagawa will be held Friday night at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva. Shinagawa spoke about how he's preparing...read more

Ithaca Police have concluded their investigation into what they've determined to be an unattended death at the homeless encampment better known as the "Jungle."
36 year old Gary Delaney was fou...read more

The Food Bank of the Southern Tier recently concluded its 4th annual Canstruction of the Southern Tier fundraiser. The Food Bank's Community & Public Relations Manager, Missy Goetschius, has...read more

Time is running out this year for the Assembly to pass and the Governor to sign Brittany's Law. State Senator Mike Nozzolio who has lead the charge for the bill's passage in the upper house confirms h...read more

The hazing death of one of its pledges has resulted in a hefty fine being levied against former Cornell University fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
The fraternity was convicted of several charge...read more

Just before 3 o'clock this morning, Wendy Kastenhuber was arrested for threatening an employee at Tops with a knife, demanding money and cigarettes. The employee, whose name has been been released, ...read more

With his victory Tuesday, Congressman Tom Reed earned another 2 years in the House of Representatives. He took some time Wednesday to talk about his election opponent, Nate Shinagawa.[audio:Reeddayaft...read more

On Friday, Oct. 26, a congressional debate between the two candidates running for the 23rd District of New York will be held at 7 p.m. in Albright Auditorium on the campus of Hobart and William Smith ...read more

Ithaca Police Officers were removing 23-year old David Wiles of Trumansburg from The State Theatre of Ithaca during a sold out concert last night when things got out of hand. Around 8:45, Wiles was ...read more

Ithaca Police arrested a 37 year old Ithaca man in connection with a bomb scare on the Commons last month.
Matthew Whitney was charged with felony placing a false bomb or hazardous substance.&n...read more

As cleanup from Hurricane Sandy continues on Long Island, New York City and New Jersey, farmers are being encouraged to donate.
The New York Farm Bureau says food is desparately needed downstate. ...read more

Here's an updated look at the impact Hurricane Sandy is expected to have on the Finger Lakes and Southern Tier this afternoon and evening from staff meterologist Kevin Williams...First, the rain....
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Thursday will mark the 37th year the Great American Smokeout will be celebrated in America. Helen Dunlap with the Tobacco Action Coalition of the Finger Lakes.[audio:2012GreatAmericanSmok.MP3]
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It's no longer a hurricane. Sandy has been downgraded to a Tropical Storm, but it still doesn't hurt to take extra precautions. We will still be getting the after-effects of Sandy, combined with a col...read more

On Friday, a search warrant was served at an Ithaca residence following an investigation into the illegal distribution of pot and crack cocaine. Officers found and seized marijuana, crack cocaine, a l...read more